The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-06-26
Won SHERMANY.
News Budget from Emperor
Williams Land.
DEALING WITH HIGH TREASON,
The Emperor Has Entirely Recovered
The Case of Major Hinze
Other Notes.
From the Emperor's Realm

BERLIN. June %. Copyrighted, 1887,
by the New York Associated Press.
The prisoners Koechin and
BIech, who were recently con-
vlcted of treason in belonging to a
French patriotic league, were TO-
day transferred from Leipsic to
Magdeburg fortress and their associ-
ates, Schnifferman & Trapp, to Gratz,
where they will remain until their
periods of detention expire. The
opinion throughout Germany is that the
prisoners have been leniently treated
and may have their sentences modified,
but their chance of obtaining commu-
tation is in cessation of the patriotic
league agitation and in their making
a direct appeal for mercy to the
Emperor. The tone of the French
press in demanding the release
of Koechlin, together with threats of
retaliation on German subjects in
France, tends to melting an increase of
seventies against French malcontents
in Alsace-Lorraine. The position of
the Germans in France has become,
under social prosecutions, barely toler-
able. They would be hunted out of
the country altogether but for the pro-
lection guaranteed them under the
Frankfort treaty.
The latest anti-German project to
which the attention of Berlin officials
has been directed is the proposal before
the Chamber of Deputies making
foreign residents in France who may
be members of an association
hostile to French interests, liable to
fine and Imprisonment and expulsion.
The proposal is capable of such an elias
tic Interpretation as to cover all Ger
mans sojourning in France. This
measure, if supported by government,
will be assumed here to be directly hos
tile to Germans, and will lead to an en-
ergetic remonstrance as break of the
for Reichsland, in contradicting the
French fables about the suppress
sion of foreign traders and French
manufacturers in Alsace-Lorraine,
defines clearly what the German
government aims to accomplish.
1t declares that governments desire is
to foster all commercial activity, and to
take only such measures as may be
necessary to maintain public peace and
weaken the influences tending to regard
the reunion of Alsace-Lorraine with
Germany.
Government has now decided not to
further delay the trial of Koechlin and
his colleagues for high treason, commit
ted at the instigation Of. Schnaeb-
les. The outbreak of Chauvin-
ism IN France has precipltated
the trial, which will begin July
4th, in open court. Every facility
will be afforded representatives of the
French and all the foreign press. This
trial will be great deal more interest
ing than those of the Alsstians, at
Leipsic recently, as the prosecution is
less intent upon the conviction of
Koechlin and his accomplices than
the exposure of the tricks of
the French war Office to pro-
cure information as to the condition
of the fortress and military plans of
Germany.
The social sensation of the week has
been the verdict of the officers of the
Court of Honor in the case of Major
Hlnze, accused of emitting to challenge
to duel his political opponent in the
Reichstag election, who, during the
campaign, aspersed his honor as an
officer. Major Hinze was retired from
the army on pension. He was Pro
gressist deputy in the late Reichstag. He
opposed the septennate and favored the
short service system. He became in
tensely unpopular among his former
brother officers, who denounced him,
during the electoral struggle, as unfit
to bear any arms, title, or 20
wear the orders. He prosecuted
his slanderer in a court of law
and obtained a successful verdict,
Whereupon the staff officer and guards
of the corps appointed the Court of
Honor, whose decree depriyes HinZe OF
the right to the title of major and to
wear the uniform of the army.
The Emperor has confirmed
the degradation of Hlnze, al
together there is clause in the
criminal code applying equally to sol
diers and civilians, which forblds chal-
longing to duel, under the penalty OF
six months imprisonment. This de-
cis1on puts the stamp of the highest au-
thority on duelling as a laudable
custom. prevailing over the law for
bidding it. HINES friends charge
that the military court was Influenced
by political hatred.
The emperor has completely recovered.
He drove out at noon to-day. accom-
panied by the Duchess OF Baken, ana
In the afternoon heard long reports
from Court Herbert Bismarck. Yester-
day he resumed his custom OF appear
gin at the window to return the
greetings of the multitude that
daily gathers in front OF the palace.
He looked paler than formerly, but Is
still well and hearty. His powers
of recuperation are more tnan
ever a marvel to his physicians.
WaIls1 Hair RalSAm,